This past week, I flew to Israel to participate along with nearly 1,000 delegates from 50+ countries and more than 200 different cities in the first ever World Orthodox Israel Congress, organized by World Mizrachi.
“Every child who attends Jewish day school through 12th grade should be able to speak Hebrew … without having to sacrifice other aspects of their education.” When Rabbi Daniel Alter came to Moriah, Hebrew language was one of his team’s priorities.
In a seamless transition that took place at the end of September, Bergenfield residents Rivka Alter and Nechama Price took over the helm of the Yoetzet Halacha Initiative in Teaneck and its surrounding communities.
This Shabbat, Bergen County rabbis will ask their congregations to make technology use ‘intentional.’ It seems all working adults struggle to strike just the right balance between modeling good device usage for our children while also vigorously wielding our phones, tablets and computers to complete our work, our learning, our shopping and even our chesed projects.
How do you know if someone is really listening to you? Really paying attention? Really focusing on what you are saying? Well, often it is hard to know for sure, but when it comes to noticing if someone is not listening or not paying attention, we can usually tell.